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Christmas Party

Calendar of Events

“Club Christmas Party”

Saturday - Dec 13th - 6pm

Owasso Community Center

301 S. Cedar Street

Owasso, OK

(see details - page 5 )

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“Board Meeting”

Thu - Dec 18th - 6:30pm

(see details - page 5)

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DUES ARE DUE $25.00 PER YEAR

“The Best deal in town”

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“Scavenger Hunt,

Chili Supper, Bingo Party”

Feb 14th - (Back Bldg)

Creek County Fairgrounds

December

Club Motto: Dig For Fun, Restore When Done

Indian Territory

Treasure Hunters Club

Inside this issue:

Christmas Party

Call “Santa’s Elf”

(Pam Cook)

918-336-5691

Email: cogsec3@aol.com

By Thurs - Dec 11th with names,

age, gender of children attending

2014

Christmas Party

Volunteers:

Turkey:

Mike Mitchell (2)

Ham

Cody Reese (1)

John & Rachel Hayworth (1)

Mike Mitchell (1)

All Members:

(See page 5 for food list)

Finds of the Month 2

Amazon.com 3

Christmas Party Food List 3

Stocking Stuffers 3

Attendance Drawing 3

Birthdays & Anniversaries 4

2015 Officers & Board

Members

4

Broken Arrow Neighbors 4

Christmas Party Details 5

Christmas Party Check List 5

Centerpiece Drawing 5

Board Meeting for New & Old

Officers.

5

Club Outings Chosen my

Members 6

Happy Holidays!

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Check out the

“find of the

month”

pictures on

our web site

each month

at:

www.itthc.com

Find of the Month – November Meeting

CATEGORY PLACE --NAME DESCRIPTION

Valuable Coin 1 James Marcum 1897-O Barber Dime

2 Ken Fanning 1907 Barber Dime

3 John Hamilton 1918 Mercury Dime

Oldest Coin 1 Chuck Marcum 1857-O Seated Half Dime

2 John Freeman 1897 Barber Dime

3 James Marcum 1898-V Nickle

Oldest Cent 1 Chuck Marcum 1831 Large Cent

2 Mathew Fortney 1885 Indian Head Cent

3 John Freeman 1898 Indian Head Cent

Valuable Cent 1 Jim Nobles 1914-D Wheat Cent

2 John Hamilton 1864 Indian Head Cent

3 Mathew Fortney 1911-S Wheat Cent

Relic 1 Ken Fanning Midland Valley Railroad Lock

2 James Marcum 1758 One Reale

3 Mathew Fortney Good For Token

Jewelry 1 Shaun Kucera Sterling & 14K Gold Ring

2 Jim Nobles Sterling Ring

3 John Freeman Sterling Saint Christopher Pen

Military Relic 1 James Marcum Cartridge Box Plate

2 John Freeman Gallager Bullet

3 (tie)

3 (tie)

Cody Reese

Chuck Marcum

Staff Officer Cuff Button

Side Shield Button

Display 1 John Freeman

2 Lloyd Coke

3 Mathew Fortney

Display Drawing Winner: Lloyd Coke

Remember to bring your finds each month to enter!

(Except December - hold to enter in January)

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“Christmas

waves a

magic

wand over

this world,

and

behold,

everything

is softer

and more

beautiful."

- Norman

Vincent

Peale

AMAZON.COM

Christmas is upon us and some of you will be ordering presents

online to save standing in line

and possibly to save money with free shipping and best of

all have it delivered to your

doorstep.

If you want some of this money that you spent to go to the club

you can do so by going to the

main page of the ITTHC web site at www.itthc.com and click

on the Amazon icon at the

bottom of the page.

This will take you

to Amazon.com where you can

order anything that you desire.

By doing this Amazon will give the club 4% of your purchase if

it comes from Amazon and 3%

if it comes from elsewhere.

Attendance Drawing

Nov 8, 2014 Meeting

Winner

Vicki Lang

Names drawn before the winner

James Robert

Tim Watts

Tommie & Monica Goodner

Earline Claxton

Jim & Roberta Niessen

Bill & Diana Rouse

You should have been there - you

would have won 10 / $1.00 gold coins.

CHRISTMAS PARTY FOOD LIST

Turkeys: Mike Mitchell (2)

Hams: John & Rachel Hayworth, Cody Reese,

Mike Mitchell

Kathi & Bob Avey: Vegetable Dish

Pam & Bob Cook: Sweet Potato Casserole,

Pickled Okra, Black Olives, and Green Olives.

Linda & Ken Fanning: Green Bean Casserole

Jean & Wally Dick: Cornbread Stuffing, Turkey

Gravy, Shrimp Appetizer (and maybe a dessert)

Vicki Lang: Green Beans & I'm not sure what

kind of appetizers

Bill Watkins: Green Bean Casserole

Stocking Stuffers

Puzzled about what to buy for that

metal detectorists on your shopping

list??

Well, here are some suggestions:

Batteries

Coin Books

Coin Holders

Compass

Flashlights

GPS

Hand Cleaner

Hunting Pouch

Jewelry Cleaner

Jewelry Polishing Cloth

Journal for Notes

Magnifiers

Maps Multi-Tools

Pocket Knife

Scale

Thermal Socks & Gloves

Thermal Underwear

Treasure Hunting Books

Treasure Magazines

Wire Brushes

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Community Service Project

2015 Officers President: Cody Reese

Vice President: Roger Eaton

Secretary: Rachel Hayworth

Treasurer: Terry Humphries

Parliamentarian: John Freeman Sr.

Board: Tim Adams

Bob Cook

John Hamilton

Jim Nobles

Bill Watkins

Santa

Wish

List:

New places

to detect

Fresh

batteries

Good

Weather

Lots of

Good Luck

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

December Birthdays

01 Nancy Cloud

04 Aleah Rosser

10 Mathew Fortney

12 Janet Cawvey

14 Tyler Adams

20 Bill Watkins

25 Jim Nobles

26 Cathy Young

30 Ralphetta Dill

31 Chris Willaby

December Anniversaries

04 Bill & Morine Barnes

07 Bruce & Cindy Marten

07 John & Rachel Hayworth

For over eleven years, ITTHC has chosen to assist

the Broken Arrow Neighbors Association (BAN)

as the focus of our club’s community service.

BAN is a nonprofit organization and is celebrating

its 31st year of serving our local community. In past years ITTHC members have helped fill

Christmas stockings which BAN then distributed

to children and seniors in our local areas. In

addition, throughout the year, we have collected

items from BAN’s “Needs List” to help stock their

pantries and supplies.

BAN has moved into their new facility which is

located on the back lot of their old location. They

will have plenty of space to accommodate most

anything club members would like to donate.

There is always a high demand for items such as

canned goods, boxed food items, and toiletries.

We will be happy to deliver items club members

bring to any of our meetings and/or outings. Since

the list of needed items is pretty constant, we will forgo the usual monthly list in the club newsletter.

In case you would like to see what’s on their list,

you can visit The Broken Arrow Neighbors

website: http://www.baneighbors.org/ and look

for the category “Current Needs List”.

Through recent discussions with the ITTHC board,

we will continue to support BAN with the

following two main projects: “Back-to-School”

and “Christmas”. Many thanks to all those club

members who have already helped this year with

donating back-to-school supplies.

The second main project is our “Christmas

Collection” and since the holiday season will be

arriving soon it’s time to start thinking of how we

can help others who are less fortunate in our

community.

This year again, in lieu of Christmas stockings, we

are asking club members to donate canned goods

and/ or make money contributions to this effort.

Any money collected will be matched by ITTHC

and will be given to BAN to help with their

Christmas basket distribution. We will have a

collection can for this purpose at the Oct, Nov, &

Dec meetings.

Thank you for helping this very worthy cause!

Jean Dick and Marge Wierzchowski

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ITTHC Christmas Party

Saturday - December 13th Owasso Community Center

(Large Meeting Room - No Kitchen Facilities)

Please arrive early to help set up.

6:00 pm - Setup and decorate

6:30 pm - Appetizers

7:00 pm - Dinner is served

7:30 pm - Santa arrives/raffles

Families bringing main course:

Turkey - Mike Mitchell (2)

Ham - John & Rachel Hayworth,

Cody Reese , Mike Mitchell

Each family is asked to bring one each of the following

food items. If your last name begins with:

A thru L - Bring appetizer and vegetable dish

M thru Z - Bring salad and dessert

BRING YOU OWN DRINKS Pam Cook will be helping Santa this year. Children 11

and younger will be given a gift by Santa. Please

contact Pam (918-336-5691 or email:

cogsec3@aol.com) by Thu Dec 11th with names/ages/

gender of children you are bringing.

If you do not notify her, please bring a wrapped gift

with their name on it. (approx $5 in value).

There will be a centerpiece drawing. Only those

bringing centerpieces will be eligible to win in the

drawing. You bring one you go home with a different

one.

There will be a RAFFLE & “50-50” pot at the party.

This is typically the largest raffle of the year.

Please try to bring donations for the raffle.

There WILL NOT be a find of the month. Items found

since the Nov meeting can be entered at the January

meeting.

We will still be collecting for the Broken Arrow

Neighbors. (See page 4 for the needs list.) We will also

be collecting $$$ to help with the completion of this

year’s stocking project.

Bring your appetite and lots of good stories to share!

Party Checklist (See list for food you are to bring)

____ Turkey/Ham

____ Appetizer

____ Salad

____ Vegetable

____ Dessert

____ Beverage

____ Serving Spoons/

Spatulas

____ Plates/Utensils/Napkins

____ Centerpiece

____ Raffle Donations

____ Broken Arrow Neighbors Donation

____ Spouse and/or kids/grandkids

Christmas Party Checklist

Thursday - Dec 18th

6:30 p.m.

Corporate Place Bldg.

5800 E. Skelly Dr. Tulsa, OK

North Door

This will be a combined meeting

of the 2014 & 2015 officers and

board.

December Board Meeting

Centerpiece Drawing

This a lot of fun and helps

to decorate the tables for

the Christmas party.

Only those bringing centerpieces will

be eligible to win one in the drawing.

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In the past few weeks we have been having difficulties in finding places for

a club hunt. Either because we cannot make contact with the landowners, or

because of people not showing respect for the property & landowner by just

entering the property without permission to detect, or by leaving gates open &

breaking down fence and multiple other reasons.

If any of the members know of any property that would make a good place for

a club hunt and they want to try to get permission from the landowner for this

property then feel free to ask the landowner for permission. However, before

doing this, the property needs to be around forty acres for twenty to forty

members to hunt on.

Also, you will need to actually go to the site and visually check it out to see if

one could actually hunt on it. That is, is the grass short enough, is it inundated

with cattle, does it have parking nearby for several cars, and any other

obstacles that you feel will hinder hunting.

If you do talk to the landowner introduce yourself and be courteous and tell

him that you belong to a metal detecting group and that you are looking for a

place to hunt for relics etc. for around twenty to forty people. Be sure to

mention that we do cover up the holes that we dig and we will treat his

property with respect. We will leave the property as we found it.

Even if you just have a family member or friend close to an area of interest,

they may know the landowner. And that could make for a good local

introduction to the landowner if they are on friendly terms.

If you know of a site that you think has some historical significance (civil war,

oil field boomtown, ghost town, etc.) and need help obtaining the property

owners name and location or need help with research on a site to determine its

history, let an officer or board member know about the site.

For research purposes a geographical location is needed. It can be quarter

section-section-township-range (i.e. -NW ¼ Section 20 T29N R10W), latitude-

longitude, EMS address (these are geo referenced), or just mark the location

on a map (topographic map or road map).

Contact Cody Reese via email: creesejr@hotmail.com or call (918) 504-8490.

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CLUB OUTINGS CHOSEN BY MEMBERS

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Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club

P.O. Box 580961

Tulsa, OK 74158-0961

We’re on the web!

www.itthc.com

The ITTHC Treasure News is published by

The Indian Territory Treasure Hunters Club, Inc.

P.O. Box 580961

Tulsa, OK 74158-0961

Editor: Bill Watkins editor@itthc.com

Webmaster: Bob Freeman webmaster@itthc.com

The general meeting of ITTHC is held the second

Saturday of every month at the Owasso Community

Center - 301 South Cedar Street, Owasso, OK

7:30 p.m.

VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME!

Membership dues are: $25.00/year

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